Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione (Popdays), Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione 2019

Font Size: 
Living Together Apart
Wilfried Rault, Arnaud Regnier-Loilier

##manager.scheduler.building##: Velodromo - Bocconi University
##manager.scheduler.room##: N07
Date: 2019-01-26 09:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Last modified: 2018-12-26

Abstract


This paper aims to focus on couples who continued to live under the same roof after the separation. This situation can be qualified as Living Together Apart (LTA) – by analogy with Living Apart Together (LAT). We will first seek to identify the phenomenon of LTA by studying its prevalence, its duration, and its evolution over the last three decades. We will then pinpoint the potentially atypical factors associated with LTA. In particular, we will examine whether it is correlated with specific social characteristics (the sociodemographic profiles of separated persons, their material resources, etc.) and with certain conjugal and family configurations – notably the type of union and having children or not. We will then look more specifically at long-term LTA living arrangements, compared with those which last for a relatively short time.  The data are drawn from a survey of individual and conjugal trajectories (Étude des parcours individuels et conjugaux, 2013-2014) conducted in France by the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) and the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). A random sample of 14,000 ordinary household was drawn from the sample of the 2012 population census, and 7,825 individuals aged 26 to 65 were interviewed.

Keywords


couple; separation; LTA